When we speak of an individual's state we are actually referring to something that transcends the duality of the body & soul something that reflects the entirety of a person's being. Because each of us is a unity of body & soul there is no psychic structure or inner tension that is not reflected outwardly in the form & order of the body. When we find the physical centre of the body we also find the psychological centre of the soul. According to Zen masters by correcting posture & breathing to balance this centre one can cultivate inner tranquillity & balance: the state called Hara. In Hara Karlfried Graf Durckheim shows the Western world how to overcome the physical & spiritual decay of modern life by adopting the age-old techniques of Japanese Zen masters. By leaving behind the chest out
- belly in" posture & attitude of the west & adopting the belly-centred posture & attitude of Hara individuals can live a calm grounded & more balanced life. Included in this classic text are vital life force practices & translations of the wisdom teachings of three Japanese Zen masters. This book also explores how the practice of Hara emphasises empirical learning & the cultivation of self-knowledge through the perfection of arts such as painting & archery."
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Scarborough 1880. Jeannie spends her days watching the harbour girls
- mending nets gutting herring
- & waiting for Ethan Wharton

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Home heart & family. Sherryl Woods knows what truly matters Shanna Carlyle loves working in her little bookshop on Main Street; it's a new start & for a jaded city girl it's nice to be at the heart of such a welcoming community. When Kevin O' Brien walks into her shop Shanna immediately recognises him as a wounded soul. She's had far too much experience with the type. Although her head tells her she should leave him to his own problems her heart reaches out as she sees him struggle with his role as a newly single father. Everyone knows the O' Brien family can't help but meddle & matchmake at every turn! Then just as the barriers are falling someone from Shanna's past appears. Confronted with a threat to their hard-won serenity Kevin & Shanna face their toughest challenge yet
- learning to trust again. Healing families healing hearts. In Chesapeake second chances happen in the most unexpected ways.
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You'll start this diet to lose weight. You'll stay on it because you'll feel healthier than you can ever remember
- & you'll lose
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Tab nabs were the biscuits dished out in the mess rooms of ships in the merchant navy. If a helmsman was asked if the ships helm was hard a-starboard or hard a-port he often would reply Hard a tab nab sir." Master Mariner J. R. de L. Inniss has spent a lifetime sailing the worlds oceans first as a boy seaman on the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious in the mid 1950s & then working his way up through the ranks of the merchant navy. He saw the great days of British shipping & was able to adapt to the great changes that transformed the merchant marine during his long career. There were long hours of very hard work hardly any sleep & at times atrocious feeding; but the seafaring life also lived up to its reputation for excitement & adventure with a good deal of fun & laughter along the way." ...

Who was Just seventeen" & made Pauls heart go " Boom"? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Wheres Penny Lane? In "A Hard Days Write" Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths & adds a new dimension to the Fab Fours rich legacy by investigating the events immortalised in The Beatles music & now occupying a special niche in popular cultures collective imagination. This title is updated for 2012 to include new information on many songs plus br&-new stories." ...

A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap suffocated & with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has been abducted then found naked by the roadside. The corpse of a petty criminal is discovered with the tops of three fingers chopped off. The small children of a carpet fitter are murdered; his wife's body is found on the railway line. A supermarket MD is sent a ransom demand for the missing boy accompanied by one of the child's fingers... Jack Frost scruffy & insubordinate foul-mouthed & fearless staggers from crisis to crisis his bumbling modus operandi disguising his extraordinary powers of detection. ...

An utterly compelling gripping & disturbing thriller from the No. 1 bestselling author Martina Cole that will have you hooked until the very last page. HARD LIVES. HARD LESSONS. ITS MURDER ON THE STREETS. When a prostitutes body is found lifeless mutilated & brutally raped DCI Annie Carr has never seen anything like it & never wants to again. Kate Burrows retired DCI now consultant has plenty of experience when it comes to murder
- after all she caught the Grantley Ripper & broke the biggest paedophile ring in the South East. She is determined to help put the killer behind bars. But whoever it is wont be easily caught. & when another girls body is found even more horrifically disfigured than the last its clear the killer is just warming up... In a ruthless world where everyones out for themselves Annie & Kate must dig deep if they hope to catch a callous serial killer who knows no limits & makes no mistakes. For some prostitution is seriously big business. But how many people will pay the ultimate price?
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I am proud of who I am & what I am. I teach my children to be proud too. Because being a traveller means everything to me. It's not just a label it goes much deeper. It's an identity that is burned into my heart.' Paddy Doherty loves his life as an Irish traveller but as a child he felt like an outsider. He was different to his siblings. On the rare occasions he went to school he was bullied. & beyond the gates of the camp he found nothing but hostility. Slowly Paddy's hurt turned into anger & by the age of 11 he had started out on an illustrious career as a bare-knuckle boxer. This earned him a position as one of the most well-respected (and feared) men in the travelling community. Yet while he won countless brutal fights in the ring the real battles he faced were very much outside. In this deeply honest autobiography he tells of how he has loved & lost five children; plummeted to seven stone while battling depression drink & drugs. He describes how it feels to be shot point-blank in the head & the lengths he'll go to to protect his people. Told with all the warmth & humour he is famed for Paddy's rich & colourful story is one that will stay with you for a long time to come. ...

'I fight hard & love strong. I'm a traveller.' Paddy Doherty loves his life as an Irish traveller but as a child he felt like an outsider. He was different to his siblings. On the rare occasions he went to school he was bullied for being a gypsy boy. & beyond the gates of the camp he found nothing but hostility. Slowly Paddy's hurt turned into anger & by the age of 11 he had started out on an illustrious career in bare-knuckle fighting. This earned him a position as one of the most well-respected (and feared) men in the travelling community. Yet while he won countless contests in the ring the real battles he faced were very much outside. In this deeply honest autobiography he tells of how he has loved & lost five children; plummeted to seven stone while battling depression drink & drugs. He describes how it feels to be shot point-blank in the head & the lengths he'll go to to protect his people as well as life since My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding" & " Big Brother". Told with all the warmth & humour he is famed for Paddy's rich & colourful story is one that will stay with you for a long time to come." ...